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The new McLaren 720S GT3 will make its race debut in next month’s Gulf 12 Hours enduro in Abu Dhabi. The first racing car developed by McLaren Automotive’s new in-house motorsport department will contest the event made up of two six-hour races at the Yas Marina circuit on December 15 ahead of its homologation in

McLaren Automotive Ltd has won a court ruling against its former GT racing partner, CRS GT Ltd. The judgement handed down on Friday by the High Court of Justice, business and property court, rejected CRS’s claim that it had the rights to provide aftersales service for the McLaren MP4/12C and 650S GT3 cars it developed

Antonelli Motorsport’s Giacomo Altoe and Daniel Zampieri dominated the final race of the Lamborghini World Finals to claim the Super Trofeo world championship honours. They took advantage of a troubled start for their nearest rivals to secure victory by nearly 20 seconds from Bonaldi’s James Pull and Kelvin Snoeks. After leading yesterday’s race but falling

American Ryan Hardwick was crowned Lamborghini Super Trofeo AM class champion with a third-place finish in Sunday’s World Finals races at Vallelunga. The Dream Racing Motorsport racer started on the front row and ran second early on behind eventual race winner Damon Ockey. Hardwick slipped behind the Dorr Motorsport duo of Manuel Lauck and Florian

Augusto Farfus converted pole position for the FIA GT World Cup race into victory in Macau, winning for BMW in Charly Lamm’s last race as Schnitzer team boss. Farfus led from start to finish, clinching victory by just under one second from the Mercedes-AMG GT3 of Maro Engel to land his first full success at

Lamborghini has unveiled a brand-new sports utility vehicle (SUV) that will form the basis of a new championship in 2020. The new SUV will be the first that will combine both racetrack and off-road events across a calendar based in Europe and the Middle East. The Urus ST-X Concept was unveiled at the Vallelunga circuit,

Clazzio Racing’s Kei Cozzolino and Afiq Yazid inherited victory in a chaotic race in the Super Trofeo Pro class at the Lamborghini World Finals on Saturday afternoon. The pair took the win at Vallelunga after their nearest rivals were struck with penalties. Antonelli Motorsport’s Giacomo Altoe and Daniel Zampieri were leading comfortably when they were

American Ryan Hardwick came from third on the grid to take a superb victory in the first Lamborghini World Finals race for the Super Trofeo AM category at Vallelunga on Saturday afternoon. It was a hard-fought win for the Dream Racing driver who passed Dorr’s Florian Scholze in the closing stages to secure the victory.

Giacomo Altoe will start on pole position for race one of the Super Trofeo Pro class category of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. The Huracan driver set a 1m30.834s lap, 0.171s quicker than Clazzio Racing’s Kei Cozzolino. Richard Muscat was third for Leipert Motorsport ahead of Kikko Galbiati and his team-mate Frederik Schandorff. British

Manuel Lauck and Damon Ockey set the pace in the two Saturday morning qualifying sessions for the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the first of the two 20-minute shootouts, Dorr Motorsport’s Lauck topped the timings. His quickest effort of 1m32.861s was 0.150s faster than Raffaele Giannoni’s lap. The session had a brief pause for

Schnitzer BMW driver Augusto Farfus won the FIA GT World Cup qualification race to bag pole position for Sunday’s main event. Farfus captured the lead at the start of Saturday’s race, getting a run on Raffaele Marciello immediately on the rolling getaway and driving around the outside of the polesitter through the grandstand kink. The

Georgian team ArtLine’s Sergej Afanasiev and Shota won the Pro-Am class in the final race of the first day of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the setting sun, they took the win ahead of Loris Spinelli and JC Perez (P1 Motorsport) and VS Racing duo Takashi Kasai and August MacBeth. There was drama

Triple Eight will return to the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2019 to with a GT3 Mercedes for its current Supercars drivers Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen. The team suggested the line-up will be “arguably the most formidable trio ever seen at the mountain”. Between them, the three drivers have 15 wins and

Manuel Lauck and Florian Scholze stayed out of trouble to triumph in the second Super Trofeo Europe AM & Lamborghini Cup race at Vallelunga in the World Finals. Their nearest competitors tripped over themselves, paving the way for the Dorr Motorsport team to scoop its second win of the day. The opening stages of the

Trent Hindman and Jonathan Cecotto won a thrilling battle in the final round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series at Vallelunga. The win was in the balance until the very last corner of the race thanks to a time penalty awarded to second-placed Edoardo Piscopo and Taylor Proto. The 30-lap race at the

Daniel Zampieri and Giacomo Altoe triumphed in the Super Trofeo Europe Pro & Pro-Am race, the third of Friday’s six-race extravaganza in the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. Their Antonelli Motorsport-run Huracan Super Trofeo Evo led from pole and dominated the 50-minute race, beating Frederik Schandorff and Niels Lagrange in the Pro class. Third place

Florian Scholze and Manuel Lauck of Dorr Motorsport won the second race of the Lamborghini World Finals weekend in a thrilling finish at the line. The second placed Lamborghini of Raffaele Giannoni had been closing in on Scholze over the final few laps and had a look at passing at the final corner, but Scholze

Kei Cozzolino and Afiq Yazid took the opening victory in the Lamborghini World Finals events at Vallelunga on Friday morning. The Clazzio Racing pair took victory in the first Super Trofeo Asia of the weekend for the one-make Huracan Super Trofeo Evo. They won by over 13 seconds from British duo James Pull and Jack

Jenson Button’s “dedication and devotion” to his successful Super GT title challenge this year has been praised by his team boss Kunimitsu Takahashi. Button and his Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT co-driver Naoki Yamamoto won the GT500 championship in a tense season finale on Sunday at Motegi, beating TOM’S Lexus pair Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa

Jenson Button feels winning the Super GT title in his debut season is “just as big” an achievement as his Formula 1 championship success in 2009. Button and Kunimitsu Honda team-mate Naoki Yamamoto clinched the 2018 GT500 title by finishing third in the Motegi finale, beating TOM’S Lexus drivers Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa by

One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button resisted a determined drive from Ryo Hirakawa late on to seal the Super GT title for himself and team-mate Naoki Yamamoto. Kunimitsu Racing pair Button and Yamamoto had to finish ahead of the #1 TOM’S Lexus LC500 shared by Hirakawa and Nick Cassidy to win the title, and did

Nick Cassidy says it would be “natural” for Honda to use team orders in support of Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto’s Super GT title bid in the finale at Motegi. Button and Yamamoto’s chances of winning the 2018 GT500 championship title received a major boost when they qualified second for the final round of the

The Super GT series will hold its first-ever night race when it returns to Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit in 2020. The circuit has agreed a deal to host the night race, using the former Formula 1 venue’s newly installed floodlights, and will host a Super GT round for the first time in seven years. Sepang

Jenson Button and Super GT team-mate Naoki Yamamoto will start Sunday’s title decider at Motegi second on the grid, after narrowly losing out on pole to the #8 ARTA Honda. Button had topped the first segment of qualifying in the #100 Team Kunimitsu NSX-GT, but Yamamoto fell just 0.097s short of Honda stablemate Tomoki Nojiri

Aston Martin has taken orders for 20 of its new Vantage GT3 racers for next season. Deliveries of the car developed from the GTE Pro Vantage racing in the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship are about to start ahead of its homologation in March 2019. Aston Martin Racing team principal John Gaw told Autosport: “The car

Black Falcon Mercedes drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz have been crowned Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup champions after a court ruling. They have been awarded the crown after the penalty for a technical infringement in September’s Barcelona series finale was downgraded by the Royal Automobile Club of Belgium’s national court of appeal.

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Three of Aston Martin’s top customer teams will race the British manufacturer’s new GT3 contender in December’s Gulf 12 Hours. The R-Motorsport, TF Sport and Beechdean squads will each take early delivery of one of the new-generation Vantage GT3s they intend to race

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Audi took the race win and manufacturers’ title in the Intercontinental GT Challenge deciding California 8 Hours, but third was enough to give Mercedes’ Tristan Vautier the drivers’ championship. Christopher Mies, Christopher Haase and Kelvin van der Linde drove the Land Audi R8

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Jenson Button’s Super GT championship lead was eradicated in the penultimate round at Autopolis as all Honda squads struggled in race trim. Button started the race from third on the grid in his Kunimitsu Honda and was immediately passed by

Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Oliver Jarvis will return to Macau in next month’s GT World Cup for the first time since winning the Formula 3 Grand Prix on the street circuit in 2007. The Briton will drive a Nissan GT-R NISMO in the blue riband GT3 race